Engineering Manager
Company:Vantage
Location:North America, EST, PST
Languages:English
Seniority level:Manager, 7-10+ years engineering, 3-5+ years management
Experience:7-10+ years engineering, 3-5+ years management
Skills:
AWSBackend DevelopmentLeadershipPostgreSQLPythonDjangoETLMySQLRabbitmqSnowflakeCross-functional Team LeadershipAzureREST APIRedisCI/CDDevOpsMicroservicesMentoringSoftware Engineering
Requirements:
3 to 5+ years managing software engineering teams. 7 to 10+ years total engineering experience shipping and operating backend systems. Proven success in leading platform and data pipeline work that serves multiple teams. Strong cloud fundamentals with Azure or AWS. Solid backend experience, including B2B API design and integration. Experience leading observability and on-call initiatives, including establishing and meeting SLOs and SLIs, distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, logging, alerting and post-incident reviews. Experience working in a security-minded environment, having worked with concepts such as Least privilege, key rotation, vulnerability management, and data protection. Track record of hiring, mentoring, and performance-managing engineers across levels. Clear written and verbal communication. Comfortable collaborating with Product, Data, and Security.
Responsibilities:
People leadership: Hire, mentor, and grow a mixed-level team with clear goals and regular feedback Software Delivery: Ensure predictable delivery with clear scope, milestones, and acceptance criteria; enforce quality gates and rollback plans; coordinate cross-team dependencies and cutovers Reliability: Define SLOs and error budgets; govern resilience practices. Be hands-on during high-severity incidents when needed Developer velocity: Own SDLC and CI/CD governance, shorten feedback loops, streamline releases, and reduce engineering toil. Data platform: Own ETL orchestration, data quality controls, and recovery playbooks Cloud cost: Own budgets and cost governance. Drive cost-aware design and capacity reviews without performance regressions Platform architecture: Set service and API standards, manage technical debt, lead design reviews, and direct performance tuning and scalability efforts. Observability: Set standards for SLIs, tracing with OpenTelemetry, logging, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks. Ensure adoption across teams Incident response: Lead on-call practices and incident command. Run post-incident reviews that produce preventive improvements SRE partnership: Collaborate daily on reliability practices and tooling. Help define future reporting lines with leadership
